[amd-gfx] Amdgpu-pro

Mon Jun 20 00:23:23 UTC 2016

Tom,

I work in a high confidentiality style environment so I understand what 
you are saying.  I understand that you guys are working through getting 
internal devs working with external open source devs.  I also understand 
there's alot of protocols that have to be created in that process.

On that note I really appreciate you asking about openSUSE.  Thanks for 
that.  Just be aware in return that we are fighting the good fight for 
you guys in the public eye, on your behalf, (AMD) and that's where 
really all this begins where we are concerned.  And in past/present 
cases spending our own money to do it.  We don't have any interest in 
squeezing confidential information from sources.  We also support the 
principle of AMD's intellectual properties.  We don't think anybody owns 
that property except for AMD.  Obviously we believe that if for no other 
reason than we run fglrx on AMD hardware at technical conferences.  Our 
interest also, *is* however, in promotion of AMD hardware running 
openSUSE in front of interested technical spectators.

Amdgpu-pro is the future from what we have seen.  Therefore we do have 
questions about it.  Just take those inquiries in the spirit in which 
they were intended; which is to say, hold them harmless.

--Hal

On 06/19/2016 08:05 PM, StDenis, Tom wrote:
> Hi Hal,
>
>
> Again, please don't ask about pro-stack schedules (also I don't know
> them off hand anyways).  For FOSS UMD/KMD schedules typically their
> schedules are public as we're participating as close to real-time as we
> can.  Just don't ask about "when is feature X going to appear in this
> FOSS project?" because feature/bringup roadmaps/schedules are not public.
>
>
> I realize you're probably asking in jest but we're still a bit on edge
> what we can/can't say on this new list.  All upstreamable work is
> eventually supposed to be discussed *first* on this list and not our
> internal dev list which is a culture change as we do discuss things that
> aren't IP/business cleared regularly.  In the coming weeks this list
> will become more and more active as AMDers migrate here (and get used to
> using it).
>
>
> I will ask internally about an openSUSE pro build and see if the build
> managers don't throw a chair at me :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of
> aelaric <aelaric at inbox.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 19, 2016 19:49
> *To:* amd-gfx mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [amd-gfx] Amdgpu-pro
> Tom,
>
> That's a shame.  Have you got a schedule for when you will be able to
> comment on the Fedora release schedule?  ;)
>
> --Hal
>
> On 06/19/2016 07:38 PM, StDenis, Tom wrote:
>> Hi Hal,
>>
>>
>> Currently so far as I know Fedora/Ubuntu are really our main targets
>> for releasing pro-stack components.  I'd say users could probably
>> unpack the pro-stack Fedora components but that's likely a copyright
>> violation so let's avoid that path.
>>
>>
>> Our release schedule (for the pro components) isn't public so we
>> can't comment on that right now.  Other than to say that we're trying
>> to have KMD changes as part of each window.
>>
>> Perhaps other AMDers could comment more specifically if they happen
>> to know public info I'm missing.
>>
>> Cheers, Tom
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
> *From:* amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of
>> aelaric <aelaric at inbox.com> *Sent:* Sunday, June 19, 2016 19:19 *To:*
>> amd-gfx mailing list *Subject:* Re: [amd-gfx] Amdgpu-pro Tom,
>>
>> Excellent.  Thank you.
>>
>> My first question then is, when will there be rpm's for amdgpu-pro
>> available for openSUSE soon?  We had a fantastic opportunity to demo
>> the amdgpu-pro driver to a very wide technical audience recently
>> (June 9th-13th, Southeast Linux Fest), however as openSUSE
>> ambassadors we don't run Ubuntu.
>>
>> As AMD is a platinum sponsor for openSUSE we make it a point to demo
>> all AMD hardware at these conferences.  We don't run anything else
>> hardwarewise.  Fortunately for us, fglrx is still operational on
>> Leap 42.1, under that version of Xorg, and we were able to demo games
>> like Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Diablo 3, Half Life, and several
>> others to the technical crowd using Crossover.  This was extremely
>> successful. Our efforts would be greater and the technical interest
>> would be amplified if we were able to demo amdgpu-pro.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> --Hal Leggette
>>
>> On 06/19/2016 04:10 PM, StDenis, Tom wrote:
>>> That should be fine provided the questions pertain to publicly
>>> accessible hardware and software releases.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Tom St Denis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>
>>>
> *From:* amd-gfx <amd-gfx-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of
>>> aelaric <aelaric at inbox.com> *Sent:* Sunday, June 19, 2016 12:24
>>> *To:* amd-gfx mailing list *Subject:* [amd-gfx] Amdgpu-pro Is this
>>> list limited to discussions concerning the amdgpu open source
>>> driver or does it also include discussions about amdgpu-pro hybrid
>>> driver as well?
>>>
>>> --aelaric
>>>
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